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Press Release: New AFREF White Paper Details the Risks to Workers’ Retirement Savings from Misguided DOL 401(k) Proposal that Bails Out Private Equity
Today, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund released a new white paper warning that the Trump administration’s proposal allowing private equity into people’ 401(k) retirement accounts will undermine their retirement security and amounts to a bailout of the private equity industry.
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Press Release: Statement to the Next California Insurance Commissioner: Fully Restore The Consumer Intervenor Program
In response to California’s recent rollback of the insurance consumer intervenor program, organizations representing over 500,000 Californians and the former California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones released a statement calling on the next California Insurance Commissioner to swiftly and fully restore the consumer intervenor program, which has saved Californians billions of dollars on their insurance premiums.
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SEC Using Climate Rule Repeal as Trojan Horse to Decimate Corporate Transparency
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 29, 2026CONTACT: Jarice Thompson, media@ourfinancialsecurity.org Washington DC – Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed to repeal its 2024 disclosure rule on climate-related financial risk for large public companies. In doing so, it claimed a sweeping reinterpretation of the agency’s disclosure authority that would undermine corporate transparency broadly and leave investors and markets without critical information needed for prudent investment. The SEC climate disclosure rule finalized (and voluntarily stayed) in 2024 requires large public companies to disclose to the SEC and investors how climate change and the transition to a lower-carbon economy would impact companies’ operations,…